Just because the movie “Meet The Parents” was released in the year 2000, before the 9/11 attacks and the ensuing Patriot Act, The CIA and NSA were no less creepy, scary, and intrusive on the lives of U.S. citizens as they are in real life today. In this scene, Robert De Niro portrays an anal-retentive ex C.I.A. Agent who makes his future son-in-law feel very unsettled with the use of his surveillance spy gadgets.